Speech of Silence~Episode 4

OK, to avoid confusion between the two Stephens, I am going to call Stephen H Herbert since he loves his name so much! OK, well Herbert is now the company’s manager, but nobody except Kenneth actually seems happy about it. Cousin Ming aka the boss, asked Kenneth to do voiceovers for him as Ben was away that day.

Dressed as the chicken, Lau Dan helped Kenneth pay for his parking fee when a police officer came by and even wiped dirty stuff off his car for him. When Kenneth and Kate came round the corner, he ran away. Kenneth originally thought he had been wanting to steal his car, but then realized there was something strange about how the chicken always seemed to be around him.



OMG I felt so sorry for Lau Dan. Because he was old and couldn’t do a lot of work, his boss gave him very little pay and yelled some v. mean words at him. I am so angry! I hate how people treat older people who are just trying to earn a living.

Kenneth was helping Kate carry equipment up to a Deaf Resource Centre. They were doing a play called ‘Looking for the missing ear’. Kenneth asked if Kate had made up the story, but she said ‘I wish! No, the person who made it up is our volunteer group leader 鍾Sir. (Matthew Ko)’ Matthew at first thought that Matthew was mute and deaf so he said ‘Let me do some hand signs.’ Which were, of course all wrong!



At the canteen, when Matthew thought that Kenneth was her boyfriend, Kate straight away said: ‘What?! Boyfriend? Don’t be mistaken, he’s just my colleague.’ Kenneth teased her because he could tell she liked him.



Ben was trying to ahem... get Claire to go to the bar with him (and who knows where after!) but luckily Kenneth was there and helped Ben explain to Celine. I don’t think he should’ve though. I mean, who knows how many times he’s cheated on his wife? Kenneth took Claire home because she had hurt her foot and found out that she has a son. However, Claire’s mum said that he was her nephew because she thought that if people knew she had a big son, then no one would want to marry her.



While rehearsing for a father-son part voiceover, Kenneth totally lost it when Matthew asked him to put more feeling into it. Matthew said: ‘Think back to the happy days with your own father.’ Kenneth stood up, threw the papers on the table and said: ‘It isn’t even realistic, how am I supposed to put feeling into it?!’ it was all because he had never experienced fatherly love so he seemed to think that way about all fathers. Kate followed him to a noisy game centre. He could tell it was very painful for her ears, so he went somewhere else.



Kate told him, that he shouldn’t make so many excuses. Kenneth always said he didn’t want to do voiceovers because his grandfather wouldn’t like it, but it was actually because it brought back too many memories of him and his father.
‘Whether you will do voiceovers in the future isn’t the most important thing, the most important thing is that you are able to live up to yourself. Believe in your own emotions, live freely, otherwise you will regret it forever.’



The next day, when Cousin Ming was looking for someone to do voiceovers as someone was away, Kenneth volunteered, much to Kate’s delight and everyone else’s surprise. He was v. good at it too, after a bit of practice. Cousin Ming said: ‘Of course, he is the voiceover king’s son.’



He left hurriedly after that but left an order from the takeaway shop he worked at. When he got back, his boss yelled rudely at him and thought he had stolen the takeaway money because he had tried to make himself look rich in front of Kingdom by ordering lots of food at the restaurant.



His boss fired him and because he was so desperate, he begged him and got pushed to the ground. His boss left after chucking money at him like they do to beggars. I despise these scenes. Even if they are acting it seems so inhumane and cruel to do something like push an old man to the ground.

Kingdom saw him and walked up to him, tears in her eyes. He told her the truth. That he was an obsessive gambler and had an affair with a woman called 阿琴, who was actually the woman of a 江湖大佬. They ran away to 大馬 but people came looking for阿琴 because she owed them money. By accident, she killed the guy and put the knife in Lau Dan’s hand so that he got sentenced to prison for years.

Kingdom told him to stay at her place and he pretended to agree. When she didn’t notice, he pushed her away and ran off. At that moment, the typical scenario with the truck coming by blocked Kingdom’s view and she lost him.